Frontier Linden advises that in order to address issues with the grid (we presume that these are among the issues to which they are referring) Linden Lab has shut down Search functions for Places and Groups as of 1:40AM SLT (US Pacific).Additionally, many European users (all the affected ones seem to be routing through Level 3) are once again unable to access Second Life web servers or the Second Life grid. The first major occurrence of that was on Friday during the time that the Support Portal was offline, then a protracted period on Saturday, and now we are informed, that they have been locked out since some time before midnight Saturday, and that those connectivity problems are ongoing.
[Update: 5PM SLT - Search is back on, having been off for the busiest day of the week - but no word from Linden Lab as to whether the problems that they were trying to solve are themselves resolved]
Today in Second Life we had:
They may not look like much, but these little prims, described as looking like they came from a prim wig, caused all sorts of hassle at NCI International, in Dream City tonight.
Sim Luskwood's New year celebrations were marred by a goo attack (a self-replicating object) as seems to be unavoidable when you give otherwise sane, sensible people creation and drawing tools (Pictochat, Second Life or Dry-Erase markers) it's a penis. Who didn't see that coming?
